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In December of 1957, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a...

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CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA

Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Schmalzer’s research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China, was...

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Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks.

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In this public talk, Harvard Graduate Student Julia Alekseyeva will discuss her recent graphic memoir, “Soviet Daughter,” the story of her rebellious, independent great-grandmother coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of this story on Alekseyeva’s own life several decades later. In conversation with Alekseyeva, comics scholar ...

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The events are open to the public. A paper will be pre-circulated a week before each meeting and participants are expected to come to the meeting ready to discuss it. Contact Ieva Jusionyte jusionyte@fas.harvard.edu for the copy of the paper to be discussed.

Before Colombian cocaine made headlines, marijuana coming from the South American nation flooded U.S. cities and suburbs at a time when smoking weed was the most common illegal indulgence. By examining the first drug boom in the country that would later become one of the largest drug havens in the world,...

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Various - Harvard University

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University is turning 30! To mark this occasion, we are hosting a two-and-a-half-day celebration, @HarvardEthics: Celebrating 30 Years at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics from Thursday to Saturday, May 4-6, 2017.

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This keynote lecture is part of the Europe on Credit Series, which brings together financial experts, literary scholars, historians and social scientists to examine the connection between public finance and narratives of indebtedness and creditworthiness....